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...E.D.T.). Although the full transcript shows four planes in contact with ground controllers, only two closed in for the kill. The number 805 identifies the pilot of the Su-15 who shot down the wayward airliner; 163 denotes the pilot of the MiG-23 who accompanied him in the chase. Communication from the Soviet ground stations to the pilots is not available...
Piru's plaint is one heard increasingly often as large banks prune their sprawling networks of branches in order to reduce expenses. This year San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank may close up to 29 of its 387 offices. New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, which once had 220 branches...
...banks were not permitted to offer a higher rate of interest than that set by the Federal Government, the financial institutions competed on the basis of customer convenience. Branches sprouted like hamburger stands as banks ventured into out-of-the-way places. Says Steven Rautenberg, a vice president with Chase Manhattan: "Since we couldn't offer market value on savings, we needed a branch on almost every corner to attract business." The total number of branches of banks in the U.S. increased from 21,880 in 1970 to 43,995 in 1981, the peak year...
George F. Will Chevy Chase...
...pair of comedies dominate the late-summer box office. National Lampoon's Vacation is a lame, hard-to-sit-through farce starring Chevy Chase as a food-additives specialist who takes his '50s sitcom family on a calamitous cross-country car trip. The other hit, Paul Brickman's Risky Business, is yet another entry in the lamentable tits-and-zits genre of teen-age sex comedies: a young man finds love and success by becoming a pimp. Still, this film is deftly made, the humor nicely understated, the leading actors (Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay) smart...